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• Deathstroke Rounds Out Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League’s Currently Announced Roadmap — but Then What? - IGN

  06-12-2024 19:41
  Deathstroke Rounds Out Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League’s Currently Announced Roadmap — but Then What?  IGN
  
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• Children showcase artistic talents in call for climate justice. - Yorkshire Evening Post

  06-12-2024 19:21
  Children showcase artistic talents in call for climate justice.  Yorkshire Evening Post
  
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• How to ensure absent fathers support their children financially | Letters

  06-12-2024 19:20
  
  Guardian readers respond to Polly Toynbee’s article about the child maintenance systemRe Polly Toynbee’s article (Here’s one way to slash Britain’s rate of child poverty: stop dithering and make all fathers pay what’s due, 29 November), I was a liable relatives officer in the DWP for a number of years – the arrangement predated the Child Support Agency and was much more hands-on.In this role, I prosecuted absent fathers (and occasionally mothers) for
  
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• The crisis in the courts in England and Wales: how did we get here?

  06-12-2024 18:00
  
  Official data paints bleak picture of justice system, with large backlog of cases and record numbers on remandRape trials collapse as victims abandon cases amid long court delaysBarristers and judges spread too thinly. Prisons filled with the untried or unsentenced. Victims dropping out of prosecutions altogether. Such is the bleak picture that official government figures paint of the court system in England and Wales.How did we get here? Experts have said the crisis in the courts – greatl
  
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• Rape trials collapse as victims abandon cases amid long court delays

  06-12-2024 18:00
  
  Courts logjam in England and Wales contributes to doubling in five years of victims pulling out of prosecutions‘I’ve had four torturous years’: child abuse victims speak outThe number of rape victims pulling out of prosecutions before trial has more than doubled in five years amid record delays in the courts system in England and Wales, Guardian analysis has found.There is also growing evidence that measures designed to make justice more bearable for those involved in rape case
  
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• ‘I’ve had four torturous years’: child sexual abuse survivors speak out over court delays

  06-12-2024 18:00
  
  When two women finally felt ready to name their abusers, they had no idea the legal system would add to their painRape trials collapse as victims abandon cases amid long court delaysIt took more than 40 years before Alison Ruby felt able to tell police about the man who had peeled off her school tights and stolen her childhood.Ruby told detectives that, from the age of 12, an antique dealer named Richard Craig had regularly enticed her into his home during the school day to rape her in his bed.
  
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• Murderers who use strangulation or kill ex-partners face longer jail terms

  06-12-2024 15:19
  New laws to be introduced in England and Wales in attempt to reduce violence against women and girlsMurderers in England and Wales who kill their ex-partners or use strangulation will face longer prison sentences, ministers have said.Under new laws announced on Friday judges will have to consider tougher jail terms for murderers who strangle their victims or whose action is connected to the end of a relationship. Continue reading...
  
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• I Wasn’t Allowed to Touch My Son After He Died - The Trace

  06-12-2024 13:56
  I Wasn’t Allowed to Touch My Son After He Died  The Trace
  
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• ‘Busybody’ fines up 42% in 2023 in England and Wales, report shows

  06-12-2024 12:32
  
  Majority of 19,162 penalties issued by private enforcement companies contracted by councilsOn-the-spot penalties issued for offences including swearing, shouting, idling, loitering and begging, known as “busybody” fines, jumped 42% in 2023, according to a report.The majority of the 19,162 penalties in England and Wales – up from the previous record high of 13,433 in 2022 – were issued by private enforcement companies contracted by councils, the research found.Harrow issue
  
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• Polish parliament votes for ex-justice minister to be forcibly brought to testify in spyware probe - Notes From Poland

  06-12-2024 10:54
  Polish parliament votes for ex-justice minister to be forcibly brought to testify in spyware probe  Notes From Poland
  
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• Brian Thompson murder: Expert claims UnitedHealthcare CEO's gunman 'may flee justice' after 'police blunder' - The Mirror

  06-12-2024 05:24
  Brian Thompson murder: Expert claims UnitedHealthcare CEO's gunman 'may flee justice' after 'police blunder'  The Mirror
  
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